The unraveling of the secrets of the Loch Nesky monster was found. For an ancient monster, people took a huge eel. Check if this is so.

In September 2019, scientists from the University of Otago in New Zealand Published Results of the study of Lokh-Nesc's Scottish Lake. During the year, they took 250 samples of water from all parts of the lake-both from the surface and from the depths-in order to conduct DNA-analysis and determine all the living things that live in it, that is, to compose a full catalog of Loch Nesic animals and plants.

As a result, 3,000 different types were found. But among them there was nothing, at least reminiscent of DNA of dinosaurs. Namely the relic plesiosaurus He thought Nessie most of the supporters of the existence of the monster. According to the study, in the lake there are generally no traces of large animals and/or fish such as salmon, sturgeon, catfish or accidentally lost shark. But there are a lot of DNA of acne.

In an interview with BBC, the head of the group of scientists Nick Gemmell declared: “The very amount of genetic material suggests that acne in the lake reaches huge sizes. We cannot exclude that the creature that people here have seen and who consider the Loch Nesky monster is the eel. ”

The fact that in Loch Naskoye lake there are a lot of eels is no secret for anyone. E such can reach quite impressive sizes - up to 2 m. This is also a fact. Their main mass appears in the lakes and rivers of Scotland from the Sargass Sea, where this fish spawns. In the process of migration, they overcome about 5000 km. And more than once, the Scottish fishermen came across large specimens - however, in other lakes.

But if you carefully look at the above statement by Nick Himmel, then you can notice that, unlike the soils on the sensation of journalists, it does not claim that in all cases when people saw Nessi (more than a thousand were recorded), they actually saw eel. And it does correctly, since the grounds for this are not enough.

There is still many Various and including believable options. For example, in 2005, Paleontologist Neil Clark, curator of the Museum of the University of Glasgow, Compared The first reliable data of observations of the monster with the travel schedule of stray circuses on the way to Inverness and came to the conclusion that the locals did not see prehistoric dinosaurs, but swimming elephants.

Before that, in 1982, engineer Craig Offered The elegant version that people take for the monster of the trunks of a tarry Scottish pine, which, having fallen into the water, rot at a depth, and then, under the pressure of the gases, “jump out” from the water like a hens from a snuffbox.

Some indicate the possibility of optical effects (mirages), others-the sudden formation of large waves and fluctuations in the water surface due to the shape of the lake, others-to underground tectonic activity and mini-markets, accompanied not only by a sudden wave, but also with a roar described by some eyewitnesses.

All these versions are not mutually exclusive. Different people at different times could see different things, being ready or even emotionally charged to meet a secret. And the rest for them could make their own unconscious.

Well, of course, one should not forget about conscious falsifications. So, the most famous picture of the Loch Nesky monster of 1934, taken by the surgeon Kennet Wilson (see below), was Generally exposed Only in 1994, when two of his accomplices admitted to the “evidence” factory. It turned out that the “monster” was made from a toy submarine, attaching a plastic head to it with a putty. Its existence was beneficial to the owners of local hotels and journalists, so the story was quickly inflated. And then, as is usually the case in such cases, people begin to see what they want to see.